Corny Fun

We finally had a Saturday that many of us could all head to a corn maze an hour away and then go to the nearby springs.

 Before we started. Once we got in the maze, Hunter and Jessica split off from us. Tyler and Adam ran around trying to jump out in front of us to scare us.

 Tara, her son Kealen and her niece Sierra went with us.

 Not sure what Adam is doing????

Sunflowers were 2 for $1.

After the maze, we went to the springs which were just a few minutes away.

The water is 70F (that's cold for water!!) year round because it is a spring.

 

 Be sure to read River's news in that last post.

And don't forget to check out the interviews and reviews on my teen blog. It normally has the same fun Friday post, but I try to have interviews on Mondays. Some times I have none and other times, like right now, I have four interviews lined up for the next four Mondays.

And my blog for parents has parenting advice, quick tips and an assortment of posts.

A Fun Saturday!

We had a fun day planned for Saturday. 

But then my car's cooling fan went out, my radiator went dry and I got stranded downtown. I had Jasmine and River with me, so thankfully I was able to get the car safely off the road. 

Jessica came and rescued me. (She was getting ready for work, which is why I had River). The car had to be towed. Rick's van is having problems and Ty has only driven his around town, so we weren't sure how it would do going clear to Tallahassee. 

So we were debating whether or not to try and go. Adam and Tara had planned to go too, so we didn't really want to cancel. We had decided to try and take Ty's van when Adam messaged and said I could drive his car, and he and Tara would take hers. So game on.

We left early to go to Wakulla Springs just south of Tallahassee. I hadn't planned on staying there really long because Tara had to work at 4:00, and I didn't know if they would really like the springs or not. I thought people might just do the 22 foot jump twice and want to leave. I was wrong. They could have stayed there all day!

 In the summer, there is a very long wait to jump, but there were only a few other people there yesterday.

Kayla's 22 foot jump. This is a spring, so the water is 78F year round.

Tyler's 22 foot jump.

The girls making the 10 foot jump. Tara was stalling on the 22 foot jump. 

Tara on the 22 foot jump.

Adam on the 22 foot jump

We were supposed to be at Sky Zone at 12:30. It's a half hour from the springs, but at 12:25 we were taking this picture. Obviously we didn't make our show time. Our jump time was 1:00. We got there at 12:57. But it took so long to check in that it was 1:13 when they got us checked in. They said we could have a 1:15 jump time. I was afraid we were going to miss it!

 There was an open jump area

 and a foam pit

 and dodge ball

There was also a basketball area that I don't have pictures of.

We'd only signed up for 30 minutes, and that went too fast. From there we went to Chuck E Cheese less than 10 minutes away.

Tara didn't want to leave, but she had to work. She left very reluctantly. We left shortly after she and Adam left. It was a really great day, and the ones that didn't go want to go soon. But there is too much going on to go again soon.

It's All About the Journey

Or at least that's my view of travel. I am not the person who pushes through non stop to see how fast I can get somewhere. I'd rather discover new places along the way. Build new memories.

So Jasmine and I stopped to visit Wakulla Springs on our way to Gainesville for her pre op and surgery.

One of the reasons we went is because I wanted to see if I could make myself jump from the 22 foot platform into the 69F water in the springs. Right past the buoy, the water depth drops to 120 feet deep!

Jasmine missed capturing the jump. There's a video on my phone, but I haven't downloaded it to my laptop yet. I am the purple blob on the upper level.

I jumped twice from the 22 foot platform, and once from this lower platform.

Jasmine swam out and jumped off of this.

Then we took the boat ride and saw lots of alligators, white Ibis, blue crane, wood ducks and other things.

We came around the bend just in time to see these two guys dive backward off the top level.

The tour ended with a manatee in our docking area.